He opened the door and saw Granny Ma standing in the courtyard and nodded at her.
"Shen Daoyou, today you not only saved the village, but also saved Ying Luo. Thinking back to my previous attitude towards you, I am ashamed!" Granny Ma breathed a sigh of relief, and then her eyes flashed with gratitude and guilt as she said to Shen Luo.
"There is no need to mention the past again. I am still a member of the village, and I have done everything with a clear conscience." Shen Luo waved his hand and said calmly.
"When those monsters surrounded the village earlier, they said that you had been to a place called the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars. I wonder if that's the case? "Granny Ma hesitated and finally asked.
"That's right." Shen Luo glanced at Granny Ma and said.
"According to the elders in the village, the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars is the place where the founder of Fangcun Mountain taught his disciples. I wonder … what is the situation inside?" Granny Ma's face flashed with excitement as she asked eagerly.
"Granny Ma, I know what you want to ask, but knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing. Of course, if you really want to know, I won't hide it from you. "Shen Luo said slowly.
Granny Ma's body trembled when she heard this, and the excitement on her face slowly disappeared. She seemed to have guessed something, and her face turned pale as she fell silent.
Shen Luo just silently closed the door and walked slowly to the center of the courtyard. He looked up at the stars in the sky thoughtfully.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, at my age, in addition to protecting the village, my only obsession is to know the situation on the mountain. Please … please dispel my doubts, Fellow Daoist." After a moment of silence, Granny Ma sighed and spoke again.
Shen Luo nodded and immediately told Granny Ma everything he saw in the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars, only hiding the matters related to the Huangting Jing.
Granny Ma listened to Shen Luo's narration, and the trace of expectation in her turbid eyes finally faded as the color on her face slowly faded. She looked a lot older.
"Our Village of Longevity has waited bitterly for several hundred years. Haha, in the end, it was still an empty dream. Fate makes fools of us, fate makes fools of us!" She laughed bitterly and murmured. Two streams of tears flowed down her cheeks.
Shen Luo stood quietly to the side and did not speak. He also felt a sense of loss in his heart.
Although the Village of Longevity was now in a desolate state, it was still able to survive to this day. As the saying goes, when the nest is overturned, no egg can remain intact. Under the Heavenly Demon's destruction, there were many cases of families in the Four Great Continents being destroyed.
After Granny Ma said such a self-deprecating sentence, she lowered her head and stood there silently. Her lonely figure seemed to be abandoned by heaven and earth.
However, she didn't stand there for too long. She quickly raised her head, and her expression seemed to have returned to its usual calmness.
"Thank you, Shen Daoyou, for telling me the truth. However, I would like to ask Fellow Daoist not to tell anyone else about this matter, so as to avoid affecting the villagers' will to live," she said seriously.
Shen Luo saw that Granny Ma adjusted her mentality so quickly. He couldn't help but secretly admire her and nodded in agreement.
"I can't repay Fellow Daoist's kindness. Please accept this old woman's bow!" Granny Ma bowed to Shen Luo.
"Granny, you don't have to do this! By the way, although Ying Luo is out of danger, she still hasn't woken up and needs someone to take care of her. Shen Luo still has things to do and can't be distracted. Please send someone to take care of her, Granny Ma. "Shen Luo hurriedly avoided Granny Ma's bow and said.
"Of course," Granny Ma nodded in response.
Shen Luo nodded, turned and walked into another side room in the courtyard and sat down cross-legged.
Today, he fought with the Heaven Devouring Tiger and just rescued Ying Luo. The spiritual power in his body was almost exhausted, so he silently circulated the Yellow Court Scripture to recover.
After his spiritual power was fully recovered, he took out the Seven Star Brush and continued to check the many gains on the mountain with his Divine Sense.
"Now it seems that only the mystery of this painting has not been comprehended." Not long after, his Divine Sense withdrew from the Seven Star Brush. He raised his hand and waved it. A white light flashed in his hand and a scroll appeared. It was the Sky Bamboo Moon Painting.
He unfolded the scroll and looked at it carefully.
On the scroll, there was a bright full moon and a slanted bamboo, projecting a faint shadow.
He looked at it a few times and felt his vision blur. The full moon and the bamboo seemed to suddenly become real and reflected in front of him.
Under the moonlight, there seemed to be a breeze blowing by. The green bamboos swayed one by one and collided with each other, making the sound of bamboo joints hitting each other. The shadows cast by the ground intertwined with the moonlight, forming a mottled shadow of intersecting light and darkness, constantly changing.
Shen Luo ignored the full moon and bamboo around him and cast his gaze on the mottled shadow of the moon on the ground.
He had studied this painting before. The mystery of this painting was in the unpredictable shadows on the ground, as if an invisible person was practicing a set of strange footwork.
Shen Luo had noticed this before, but he was a little uncertain at that time. Now, his cultivation had improved compared to the first time he saw the Moon Gazing at the Sky Bamboo Portrait. Especially after he stepped into the Out-of-Body Stage, the power of his Spiritual Soul had increased tremendously. When he tried to comprehend this portrait again, he suddenly felt enlightened about many things that he didn't understand before.
"This is indeed a set of footwork, many times better than the Bai Family's Wind Chasing Steps." Shen Luo's eyes followed the changing shadows of the moon, revealing a light of excitement.
After a long time, he slowly closed his eyes and the illusion around him disappeared without a trace. The footwork changes in the scroll had been memorized by him.
After a while, he opened his eyes and stood up. He put away the Sky Bamboo Moon Painting and stepped out according to the footwork.
This set of footwork seemed to be related to the Book of Changes. The footwork changes were in accordance with the positions of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes.
However, the footwork changes were quite special. Sometimes when he took a step forward, he would not be able to reach the position of the next step. He would need to jump forward and back to adjust. It was very awkward to walk. When he first tried it, his footwork was very slow and even looked a little funny.
Fortunately, after he cultivated the Yellow Court Scripture, his body became very flexible. He soon began to get used to it and his footwork became faster and faster.
While running, Shen Luo began to quickly comprehend the various mysteries contained in the footwork. Some of the original footwork's strange points gradually became clear.
Those points were not strange changes, they were clearly the essence of the footwork's wonderful essence.
Moreover, when he used this footwork, the magic power in his body followed and flowed slowly in the meridians of his legs, increasing the speed of the footwork.
Time passed quickly without him noticing. Shen Luo was immersed in this wonderful footwork and entered a state of selflessness.
In the room, Shen Luo's figure flashed like a ghost. The footwork under his feet changed intricately and his speed became faster and faster. In the end, his whole body almost became a line. Behind him, there were vague afterimages.
After a while, the rapidly running figure suddenly stood still. It was as if an iron pillar was rooted to the ground. It was motionless. The series of afterimages behind it immediately returned to their original positions.
"Satisfying!" Shen Luo let out a carefree shout.
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